Determination of problem solving skills of sports high school and fine arts high school students with multiple intelligence areas

In this study, it is aimed to investigate multiple intelligence areas and problem solving skills of high school students and to compare students in sports high schools and fine arts high schools accordingly. To reveal the differences of students studying in different high schools in terms of multiple intelligence areas is the main phenomenon of the research. In the multiple intelligence theory, Gardner touched on the students' intelligence fields in eight different parts as verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, visual-spatial, physical-kinesthetic, social-internal, musical-rhythmic and natural intelligence. According to this theory, it is stated that these eight different fields are a guiding tool for students in learning and using information by processing and problem solving. In this study, which was conducted to determine the relationship between students' problem solving inventory, multiple intelligence scales and demographic information, descriptive relational scanning model, one of the general scanning models, was used. The sample of the study consists of a total of 347 students between the including 155 sports high schools and 192 fine arts high schools. Personal Information Form, Problem Solving Inventory and Multiple Intelligences Scale were used to collect research data. In order to determine the distributions according to demographic variables, frequency (f) and percentages (%) were calculated. Item totals and averages of the dimensions of the scales were found. Means and standard deviations were calculated. In order to determine whether the Problem Solving Inventory and Multiple Intelligence levels vary according to demographic variables, independent samples t-test and one-way variance (anova) analysis were performed. As a result of the research, it was determined that students' multiple intelligence levels had an effect on their problem solving skills. Keywords: Multiple Intelligence, Multiple Intelligence Theory, Problem Solving